Suspect charged over fatal California bank robbery shootout
STOCKTON Calif. (Reuters) – A suspect in a California bank heist in which heavily armed robbers took hostages and engaged police in a running gun battle during a high-speed chase last week was charged with murder on Monday for the deaths of a hostage a…
Texas governor to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to border
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry said on Monday he planned to send 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Mexican border to boost security during an influx of illegal immigration by children, a move that could increase pressure on P…
Activists say arrests made in protest at Utah tar sands mine project
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Sheriff’s deputies in Utah arrested nearly two dozen environmental protesters who chained themselves to fences and construction equipment on Monday at a tar sands mining project in the remote Book Cliffs mountains, an activis…
Alaska Army National Guard soldier attacked by bear near base
JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) – An Alaska Army National Guard soldier was attacked by a brown bear while training in the woods near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, the second bear attack on a soldier from the base in two months, officials said …
Colorado county clerk ‘reluctantly’ halts same-sex marriage licenses
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado county clerk who issued nearly three dozen same-sex marriage licenses agreed on Monday to halt the practice after the state’s highest court ordered another clerk to stop issuing the permits to gay couples.
Kansas police arrest suspect in girl’s death
(Reuters) – A man accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old Kansas girl who died in a shootout between police and her alleged abductor was arrested in a hospital on Monday on suspicion of charges including first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping, author…
Lawyers for Mississippi death-row inmate want conviction overturned
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – Attorneys for a Mississippi death-row inmate who was tried six times for the same killings told the state Supreme Court on Monday that his most recent trial was unfair and his conviction should be overturned.
Traps set after reports of giant snake on New Jersey’s Lake Hopatcong
(Reuters) – In a scene that could open the film “Snakes on a Jet Ski,” New Jersey animal control workers have set traps to snare a reported 20-foot-long serpent slithering through the waters of Lake Hopatcong.
New Mexico teens charged with beating two homeless men to death
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged three New Mexico teens with murder for allegedly beating to death two homeless men whose bodies were so badly disfigured they have yet to be identified, police and the Albuquerque District Attorney’…
Texas man arrested for posing as veterinarian
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A 26-year-old Houston man has been arrested for practicing veterinary medicine without a license after he dispensed medicine and performed makeshift treatments on at least 50 animals, police said on Monday.
